The third graders at Forest Brook Elementary School turned their classroom into a learning hospital for Operation: Informational Text Features!
Dressed in scrubs and armed with scissors, these young “surgeons” worked in different operation rooms to dissect magazines in search of text features. They carefully identified and collected examples such as titles, headings, captions with photographs, bold and italic text, diagrams, and maps — all the key parts that make informational texts come alive.
Each team then “stitched” their findings onto paper patients, combining creativity with literacy skills in an unforgettable way.
It was a fun, hands-on lesson that turned reading into an adventure and by the end of the day, every text-feature surgeon earned a perfect report!